are getting to the point where they can
threaten full-tilt-boogie gaming rigs, it’s
right here in front of your face with Falcon
Northwest’s Tiki Z.
How else could you explain the moment
of concern—short though it was—that a
micro-tower could actually show up this
year’s $30,000 Dream Machine? The Tiki Z
is no mere micro-tower, of course. Inside
its 4-inch chassis, Falcon Northwest manages to magically insert the most misunderstood card of late: the GeForce GTX
Titan Z. Most wondered why Nvidia would
even make such a card.
Well, here’s one reason: You can fit it in
a micro-tower, and that certainly can’t be
said of AMD’s Radeon R9 295 X2. What the
Titan Z does for its insane pricing is give
micro-towers the one thing they’ve been
lacking: dual-card-like performance.
Falcon did have to make some adjustments to get the Titan Z in there. There’s
clever venting through the Nvidia symbol
and sealed exhausts to keep the Titan Z
from heating up the machine. Falcon also
had to up the PSU to a new Silverstone
600-watt unit. The “rest” of the machine
is a liquid-cooled Devil’s Canyon Core i7-4790K with an overclock of 4.4GHz on all
cores and 4.7GHz on two cores. Also new
to the Tiki is a base that’s cut from a billet
of aluminum instead of the typical granite look the Tiki has sported the last two
years. We like the change as it allows Falcon to paint it and frankly, the granite look
didn’t work for all of us.
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